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Arabic (Unicode block)

Arabic
Range U+0600..U+06FF
(256 code points)
Plane BMP
Scripts Arabic (237 char.)
Common (6 char.)
Inherited (12 char.)
Major alphabets Arabic
Pashto
Persian
Urdu
Assigned 255 code points
Unused 1 reserved code points
1 deprecated
Source standards ISO 8859-6
Unicode version history
1.0.0 169 (+169)
1.1 194 (+25)
3.0 206 (+12)
3.2 208 (+2)
4.0 227 (+19)
4.1 235 (+8)
5.1 250 (+15)
6.0 252 (+2)
6.1 253 (+1)
6.3 254 (+1)
7.0 255 (+1)

Note:


Note:

Arabic is a Unicode block, containing the standard letters and the most common diacritics of the Arabic script, and the Arabic-Indic digits.

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Arabic block:


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Wikipedia

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